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sas.^Audubon, Harris and Bell found it very abundant on the 

 low^prairie near a lake a few miles from Edwards ville, 111., in 

 April 1843. Mr. E, S. Currier regards it as a regular spring 

 migrant and sometimes in fall at Keokuk. Mr. W. E. Praeger 

 has three records of its occurrence in Clark Co., Mo., in the second 

 and third week of April. The writer met with it April 12, 1894, 

 in Lincoln Co. (Auk, vol. 12, p. 7). April and October seem to 

 be the months, when wc can expect it in Missouri. Mr. W. W. 

 Cooke found it wintering at Caddo, Ind. Ter., 34° IT lat., from 

 the middle of November to the end of February. Mr. Otho C. 

 PoUng of Quincy, 111., calls it (Auk, vol. 7, p. 240) a regular 

 spring and fall migrant, seemingly more plentiful in the fall than 

 in the spring, sojourning from early October until the middle 

 of November, frequenting stubble fields of oats and wheat with 

 short grass and weeds. He also found large flocks on the low- 

 land about Lima Lake, lying closely in the short grass. 



538. Calcarius ornatus (Towns.). Chestnut-collared Long- 

 spur. 



Plectrophanes ornatus. Centrophanes ornatus. Emheriza ornata. Plectro- 

 phanes melan/)mus. 



Geog. Dist. — Great Plains of North America, breeding from 

 Kansas and Colorado north to the Saskatchewan. In winter to 

 Arizona and Mexico. 



The only record of its occurrence in Missouri is that of W. E. 

 D. Scott, who found it rather common during April, 1874, 

 on the prairies west of Warrensburg, Johnson Co. Dr. E. Coues 

 writes that it associates intimately with P. pidus, Smith's 

 Longspur, and has much the same habits and general appearance. 



[539. Rhynchophanes mccownii (Lawr.). McCown's Long- 

 spur.] 



Plectrophanes mccownii. 



Geog. Dist. — Great Plains district of North America, breeding 

 from eastern Colorado and northwestern Kansas northward to 

 plains of the Saskatchewan; south in winter to northern Mexico, 

 Arizona, New Mexico and Texas; casual to Illinois. 



The IlHnois record comes from Champaign where in January, 

 1877, three specimens were taken with Lapland Longspurs. 

 This species may be expected to occur as a migrant or winter 

 visitant any time between September first and May first and 



